The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) in UK healthcare: Dichotomies in a new ‘multi-professional’ profession

Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) work in a wide range of settings across the English National Health Service. ACPs come from health professional backgrounds. This paper explores ACP as multi-professional role, and implications these understandings for sociology professions. analyses what happens when new occupational role is created that encompasses several established qualitative study gathered views experiences stakeholders. Fifty-eight semi-structured interviews were undertaken with participants employing (n = 14) actively working an 10), training 13) or engaged delivery education programme England 21). Findings analysed into three overarching themes: (i) identity, (ii) differing definitions (iii) advanced practice, regulation recognition. hold unique emerging identity based on their previous background are themselves clear they not doctors. The yet formally regulated, though many aspire to this. research early look at type which challenges existing profession is.